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Jan Griffier - A Rheinish Landscape

A Rheinish Landscape (ca. 1705)

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
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The Artist died in 1718 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.

Jan Griffier was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was active in England, where he was admitted to the London Company of Painter-Stainers in 1677.

Griffier was born in Amsterdam and learned to paint landscapes and to engrave from Roelant Roghman. His birthdate is uncertain. According to Houbraken he was born in 1656, and according to English accounts he may have been older by up to 10 years, but in 1700 he was registered in Leiden in the Album studiosorum of the university art academy there as being 48 years old and living on the Stadstimmerwerf.

He produced views of Rhineland landscapes as well as of the English countryside, and returned to the Netherlands for a decade after ca 1695, but was engaged for at least two decades in England where he worked for the Dutch painter Jan Looten (1617/1618 – c. 1681).

His mezzotints reproduce portraits after Sir Peter Lely, Hendrik ter Brugghen, and Sir Godfrey Kneller. His city views, invaluable topographical evidence, suggest that his travels in England were extensive. According to Houbraken he undertook a voyage by boat with his family to the Netherlands in 1695 that ended in shipwreck. All the paintings he had with him at that time were lost. He bought a houseboat in Rotterdam, which he then proceeded to use to move his family with him on his travels, continuing to make a living by painting landscapes. Eventually he undertook another channel crossing with this boat, but sent his family by a more seaworthy ship, since he was afraid of another shipwreck. This trip was successful and he died in London.

Apart from the biographical sketch that Houbraken wrote in 1718, much of what is known of him in England has been transmitted by Horace Walpole, working from George Vertue's notebooks.

Griffier's sons Robert Griffier and Jan Griffier the Younger continued the family landscape tradition.

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River View (1680 - 1700)

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Winter Pleasures

Winter Pleasures (1710 -1718)

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A river landscape with mountains

A river landscape with mountains

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A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

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The ferry

The ferry

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A Winter Scene

A Winter Scene (ca. 1700)

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Ein Schloss an einem Fluss zwischen Bergen, links unter einer Baumgruppe ein Haus, dabei einige Figuren

Ein Schloss an einem Fluss zwischen Bergen, links unter einer Baumgruppe ein Haus, dabei einige Figuren

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
A vast mountain landscape with peasants resting near a path and a small fortified town in a valley

A vast mountain landscape with peasants resting near a path and a small fortified town in a valley

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
Winter landscape

Winter landscape

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Winter Scene with Skaters

Winter Scene with Skaters (circa 1700)

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
A River Landscape

A River Landscape

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Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape (c. 1680-1718)

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River Landscape with Rhine Motifs and Troops Passing

River Landscape with Rhine Motifs and Troops Passing (ca 1700)

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
Flodlandskab ved vintertid

Flodlandskab ved vintertid

Jan Griffier (Dutch, 1648-1718)
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